Our downtown marina is a photographer’s fun spot. Tankers in for repairs, tugboats, boats both docked in their slips or just visiting, restaurants, people, pets and birds. Lots and lots of birds: pelicans, herons, shore birds and pigeons.
People never get tired of feeding the birds.
The pelicans and herons prefer to select their own feast from whatever the fishermen are catching.
But the fun is watching the pigeons. Some people sit in their cars and toss bread to them from an open window. Some people sit in the middle of an open area and let the pigeons fly around them as they throw food to them.
Others, like this father and son, have their own way. The father was telling the boy to hold out his hand and let the birds come to him. The boy was not having it. He preferred to simply toss the food into the air and watch the birds fly away, first out of fear, and then to settle down and eat. The boy had quite an arm on him and quite a squeal when the birds arose before sitting down to the feast.
And a good time was had by all.
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